Carcar mayors

I had long lamented that as elementary school pupils in Carcar we were never given what should be standard poop–a list of our mayors. The municipal government itself did not have that kind of list. Well, wonderfully, it seemed someone had thought of and done that long before–only, his compilation was lying in state at a library in Cebu City that charges viewing fees.

The list was compiled by Vicente Emiliano (Jaen) Noel, himself a mayor. This is part of the Vicente Noel Papers donated to the Cebuano Studies Center of the University of San Carlos. It appears that the mayors included in the first portion here were only those of memory, and their terms had not been reconstructed anymore. Since Carcar was established ca. 1599 (presupposing the civil government was organized at the same time, or thereabouts), there must have been gobernadorcillos from 1600s to this obvious 1800s list — maybe a hundred more chief executives than this.

I’m sure I’d read somewhere that only indios and mestizos Sangleys could be gobernadorcillos. So, I was a little surprised Gregorio Silva, who was classified as a criollo in his Marriage in 1837 (seeBarcenas Familytree), or at least was a mestizo Español, became gobernadorcillo, too. As did (capitan municipal) another mE, Gregorio Rodriguez, whose father came from Madrid.

The term dates for Apolonio Cuison below were added by me based only on certain church records which gave him out as the current capitan of the time (capitan actualApolonio Francisco). Ditto with Donato Alcos (Donato Francisco). But I kept the order as they appeared in the Noel list.

A marriage record in 2-Sep-1833 gave out the parents of the groom as the difunto capitan D. Francisco Valentin and Salvadora Albarado. Francisco Valentin’s family is Navarro. He died in 1832. Since this Noel list does not contain his name, let us presume he had been capitan even earlier than the individuals on it. Another capitan found was Clemente Alvarado. In the 1837 burial entry for of his wife, Ma. Lorenza, he was called capitan Clemente Albarado.

Still another past capitan found was Francisco Laurencio, who also died in 1832 as “capitan passado [sic] de 70 años viudo de Ma. Luisa”. Can’t say with finality what surname his family later got, although they could be the couple just named Lorenzo and Luisa in my Alcover file. Again, like Francisco Valentin and Clemente Alvarado above, Francisco Laurencio’s name is not on the Noel list below so we can only suppose the three had been capitanes even before those on the list.

Anyway, we should be grateful Don Vicente took this initiative. Our schoolchildren should be reciting this list from memory in our elementary schools, but if not for him, these names would have been lost forever. Don Vicente also wrote a history of the town. He died in 1951, and so the mayors after 1951 were just from my own memory as well. I also added the Born column to show who were non-natives. As I said, post-1951 is just my reconstruction and I’ve just been reminded, and this is embarrassing, Leoncio Gantuangko was mayor 1955. Embarrassing — and unforgivable — because his son, Edmundo was a grade school classmate of mine.

I was given a digitized copy of the Noel list by Jerry Martin Noel Alfafara, who was at the time still in the process of writing Carcar’s history for the provincial Towns History Project. JM’s grandfather was Don Vicente’s youngest brother.

Subsequent to the original posting of this page, Nicepuro Apura has assumed as city mayor 30-Jun-2010 after Mario Patricio Barcenas who’d served three terms (9 years) but later downgraded per a supreme court ruling back to municipal even as the whole local government machinery awaits for its supreme-ness to “correct” itself again. And sure enough it did in 2011, and Apura is back to being city mayor again.

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MAYOR

BORN

TITLE

TERM

Patricio Narciso Alcoy

gobernadorcillo

Donato Alcos

gobernadorcillo

1836

Policarpio Barcenas

gobernadorcillo

Francisco Canencia

gobernadorcillo

Juan Vidal Ybañez

gobernadorcillo

Pedro Barcenas

gobernadorcillo

Apolonio Cuison

gobernadorcillo

c. 1835, 1839, 1840

Maximiliano Antonio Alcorisa

gobernadorcillo

Ramon Santiago Alcorisa

gobernadorcillo

Vito Barcenas

gobernadorcillo

Mariano Patrocinio Dayondon

gobernadorcillo

Roman Protacio Sarmiento

Cebu City

gobernadorcillo

Pedro Barcenas

gobernadorcillo

Doroteo Alcordo

gobernadorcillo

Domingo Gemperoso

Cebu City

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1857 – 30-Jun-1858

Pedro Barcenas

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1858 – 30-Jun-1859

Doroteo Alcordo

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1859 – 30-Jun-1861

Gregorio Silva

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1861 – 30-Jun-1862

Narciso Barcenilla

Cebu City

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1862 – 30-Jun-1863

Doroteo Alcordo

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1863 – 30-Jun-1865

Gregorio Silva

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1865 – 30-Jun-1867

Andres Ximena Avila

Cebu City

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1867 – 30-Jun-1869

Gregorio Silva

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1869 – 30-Jun-1871

Narciso Barcenilla

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1871 – 30-Jun-1872

Andres Ximena Avila

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1872 – 30-Jun-1873

Timoteo Barcenilla

Cebu City

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1873 – 30-Jun-1875

Leocadio Jaen

Cebu City

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1875 – 30-Jun-1877

Timoteo Barcenilla

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1877 – 30-Jun-1879

Florencio Noel

Cebu City

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1879 – 30-Jun-1881

Leocadio Jaen

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1881 – 30-Jun-1883

Florencio Noel

gobernadorcillo

1-Jul-1883 – 30-Jun-1885

Timoteo Barcenilla

capitan municipal

1-Jul-1885 – 30-Jun-1887

Nicolas Flores

Cebu City

capitan municipal

1-Jul-1887 – 30-Jun-1889

Florencio Noel

capitan municipal

1-Jul-1889 – 30-Jun-1890

Florencio Noel

capitan municipal

1-Jul-1890 – 30-Jun-1892

Francisco Velez

Cebu City

capitan municipal

1-Jul-1892 – 30-Jun-1894

Francisco Velez

capitan municipal

1-Jul-1894 – 30-Jun-1895

Gregorio Rodriguez

Surigao

capitan municipal

1-Jul-1895 – 12-Mar-1896

Simeon Paraz

teniente sindico

13-Mar-1896 – 5-Apr-1898

Florencio Noel

Jefe Local

7-Apr-1898 – 30-Jun-1901

Florencio Noel

Presidente Municipal

1-Jul-1901 – 4-Feb-1906

Vicente Noel

Presidente Municipal

5-Feb-1906 – 1910

Mariano Noel

Presidente Municipal

1910 – 15-Oct-1916

Maximino Noel

Presidente Municipal

16-Oct-1916 – 15-Oct-1919

Maximino Noel

Presidente Municipal

16-Oct-1919 – 15-Oct-1922

Mariano Mercado

Cebu City

Presidente Municipal

16-Oct-1922 – 15-Oct-1925

Mariano Mercado

Presidente Municipal

16-Oct-1925 – 15-Oct-1929

Epifanio Alfafara

Presidente Municipal

Constancio Gantuangco

Presidente Municipal

(succ. Alfafara who died)

Mariano Mercado

Alcalde Municipal

1935

Constancio Gantuangco

Alcalde Municipal

– 10-Apr-1942

Vicente Rama

Cebu City

Mayor

May 1942 – Sep 1942

Arsenio Veloso Noel

Mayor

Sep-1942

Vicente Enriquez

Mayor

Aug-1943 – Sep-1944

Abundio Aldemita

Mayor

1-Jan-1945 – Jul-1946

Constancio Gantuangco

Mayor

Jul-1946-1950

Isabelo Montesclaros

Mayor

1950-1951

Leoncio Gantuangco

Mayor

1952-1955

Abundio Aldemita

Mayor

1955-1958

Galileo Varga

Mayor

1958-1959

Cristino Cui

Mayor

Abundio Aldemita

Mayor

1967-1986

Jose Torres

Office-in-charge

1986-198

Cristino Cui
Severino Escobido Jr.

MayorMayor

1987-1992July 1992-June 30, 2001

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mayor,pwd po ba mka-visit sa inyong shoe factory as one of our place to be visit.for our field trip…we are from HOLY CHILD ACADEMY-UBAY BOHOL..we are planning to be there n ur place dz coming sept.17 morning…tnx

hello,
trying to add more info on my Alcos side of the family..my great grandfather was Emiliano alcos born early 1900’s i think 1910???maybe earlier maybe bec my great grandma was born 1902 and she was a few years older..my grand aunt says his father was Gil alcos and his mother was cuala zafra…i dont know if my grand aunt is confused bec i went to my great grandfathers musoleo and there are bone chambers filled with the names Rosario,pascual,jose,antonia and Gil all middle zafra and last named alcos..so either there was a Gil alcos Jr or my grand aunt forgot the name of the father and accidently thinks Gil was the name …hope u can help with any records as far as u can go back.thanks and best regards!

i dont know a susana…my great grandfather emiliano alcos moved the bones to a family mosuleo but the names only mention Pascual.Rosario,jose,antonia and Gil all zafra middle named and last named alcos so i guess those were all his siblings..i dont know more about him other than the only reason he met my great grandmother was bec he worked for her and her family…

@susan and micah982, i cannot yet link many alcos lines, two of whom are susana (via grandmother joaquina alcos) although i suspect someone as being joaquina’s father. as for emiliano, i have no link yet except what you’ve furnished me especially on his emnace wife.

dear rhea, maybe if you’d address your message for the mayor through the official town website, you’d get through better. i doubt the mayor reads this blog, he would be the busiest man in the town, i presume, to find time for this once-in-a-lifetime pleasure. kidding aside, or maybe facebook would be the network to go to, maybe. i wish you the best of wishes for a successful venture with detasie shoes.

And how are you related to pio cui also? please fill us in also with your line. pio cui, i take it you mean he who was the brother of lourdes and natividad? if so, i’m a little surprised because every cui (of this branch) would know of everyone else. mayor cristino cui cui’s mother was an older half-sister of this pio. i have two other pio also, of this same cui branch, but records i have show only their baptisms. the first was an older full brother of mayor cristino’s mother, and the other, a first cousin of the other two pios.